| Wake Forest's Ghee has a secret weapon
Brandon Ghee makes a video copy each Sunday of the Wake Forest game he played in the previous day, sends it through the mail or via his parents to his older brother Patrick, and waits for the phone to ring. “It usually doesn’t take long,’’ said Ghee, a graduate of Jack Britt High School. “Sometimes he gets back to me that Sunday night.’’ Patrick Ghee always offers a quick critique of his brother’s performance during those calls. Patrick does so from a perspective of experience. He was Wake Forest’s starting safety the last two seasons and participated in training camp with the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks over the summer. “He tells me if I’m not hustling or gives me tips on backpedaling,’’ Brandon Ghee said.
2 law leaders out over handling of slur
Two of South Carolina's top-ranking law-enforcement officials are out of jobs because the governor says they were too lenient on a state trooper captured on video using a racial slur as he threatened to kill a suspect. Gov. Mark Sanford announced Friday that Department of Public Safety director Jim Schweitzer, whom Sanford appointed in 2004, and Col. Russell Roark, who heads the Highway Patrol, had offered their resignations Friday morning. A video from a 2004 traffic stop in Greenwood County shows a suspect fleeing. From off camera, the trooper yells, "You better run, n-----, because I'm fixin' to kill you." The governor said the trooper, who is still on patrol, should have been fired. Schweitzer and Roark say they stand by the punishment they handed out -- anger management and diversity training.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
CONSUMER ADVICE PUBLIC TRANSPORT Since the mid-1990s, there has been a noticeable improvement in Greece's public transportation systems, including the ferry networks serving the islands. Bus and trolley routes are now served by new fleets, while a new mass transit system in Athens - the metro - has helped relieve congestion in the capital's centre. The 2004 Olympics provided the impetus for improvements in public transport, which include the reintroduction of the tram as a link between the southern coastal suburbs and downtown Athens. Tram The tram has three lines: from Neos Kosmos (metro station) to Hellenic Olympic Complex (Agios Kosmas) and from Glyfada to the Peace and Friendship Stadium (alongside the Faliro Sports Complex). The third line runs from Syntagma to Glyfada.
MSU is ahead of game with SEC road wins
It will be a real crazy environment," said Mississippi State senior forward Charles Rhodes.The Bulldogs have played well on the road in the SEC, but there will be nothing easy about tonight, at South Carolina on Saturday, at Florida on March 1 and at Vanderbilt on March 5. .
UK united on obesity threat
The government's proposals on tackling obesity have been greeted with widespread approval from public health organisations. Health secretary Alan Johnson outlined plans to spend £372 million on the initiative in the Commons today, saying he wanted to reverse trends identified in last year's Foresight report. That predicted over half of men and women would become clinically obese by 2050, leading the government to set itself the target of becoming the first "major country" to "reverse the rising tide of obesity". Today's proposals cover initiatives helping both children and adults to eat more healthily and take more exercise. Incentives for better health will be introduced while personalised advice and support will be made available. Mr Johnson admitted it was difficult to keep a healthy weight in today's society but used this as an argument in favour of increased government intervention.
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Scripps debuts online forum for political discussion
It will also offer political news, e-mail service for subscribers, a daily public opinion poll and a feature called "Truth or Not" that will examine "the veracity of factual claims made by high-profile newsmakers and others," according to the release. "RedBlueAmerica is a place for people interested in what the other half thinks on the important and interesting issues of the day," said John Temple, founder of the site and vice president of news for Scripps' newspaper division, in the release. Discussion on the site, which is supported by advertising, will be moderated by Ben Boychuk, an editorial writer for Investors Business Daily and a blogger, who will represent the "red" side; and Joel Mathis, a blogger and reporter, who will represent the "blue" side. After the November elections, the site will continue to serve as a forum for cultural and political views, the company said.
Students fight back against gossip site
Top ten freshman sluts" reads one typical thread, and "The Jews ruin this school" another. Homophobia is common. Many postings combine the cruelty of a middle school playground, the tight social dynamics of a college campus and the alarming global reach of the Internet.JuicyCampus pledges that it blocks its discussion boards from being indexed by search sites like Google, and that appears to be true."College students are clever and fun-loving, and we wanted to create a place where they could share their stories," said Matt Ivester, the site's founder, who agreed to answer questions by e-mail."Like anything that is even remotely controversial, there are always people who demand censorship," he said in response to calls he has rejected - including one from his alma mater, Duke - for him to shut down the site.
Giants see edge in having faced Patriots
There's some stuff you see on film you actually have to see firsthand," safety Gibril Wilson said. "The way [Randy] Moss runs, the way Wes Welker has to be tackled, the way you have to tackle Kevin Faulk, [Tom] Brady's audibles. Those are things you have to experience live, and we did that."
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Golden Globes: Stars Fill in Blanks; Rock Hall of Fame
The Dave Clark Five finally made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Thursday morning, one year after their real induction was stolen from them. Other inductees are Madonna, Leonard Cohen, the Ventures and, at long last, John Mellencamp. The latter nominee has been pushed and pushed by Jann Wenner year after year. It's probably best just to get it over with. Passed over were ridiculous nominees such as Donna Summer and Afrika Bambaattaa. Madonna, who has nothing to do with rock, got in, however. For VH-1, which produces the show for TV, she's the only drawing card on that bill. I'm sure the channel is already making desperate calls to Justin Timberlake and Amy Winehouse to see if they can sing (or if they know) a Cohen song. To offset the usual lack of R&B inductees (meaning no black people), the Hall is giving a special award to Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff of Philadelphia International Records for not paying royalties to their artists for many years.
For the Enterprise/PATRICIA SADDLER (click to enlarge)
Mill Creek Police Officer Jason Didricksen, right, assists in the arrest of a woman with a felony warrant for fraud, Saturday, Jan. 13, near her home in Mill Creek. Area police agencies were having trouble finding qualified officer candidates to fill open positions this year. .
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